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Want to Be Next Warren Buffett?
The Line Forms in Nebraska

OMAHA, Neb. -- Last month, Warren Buffett posted the mother of all help-wanted ads: a request for candidates to replace him as chief investment officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Now, the r&eacute;sum&eacute;s are flooding in -- and the process is turning out to be every bit as unconventional as the billionaire investor himself. Among the 600 or so applicants so far: a Talmudic scholar who picks stocks from home, a Canadian...